VOSS: Collaborative Proposal: CyberGRID Networks - Cyber-enabled Global Research Infrastructure for Design Networks

VOSS：协作提案：Cyber​​GRID Networks - 网络驱动的设计网络全球研究基础设施

• 批准号: 0943226
• 负责人: Carrie Dossick
• 金额: $ 12.83万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0943226&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: VOSS; Collaborative; Proposal; CyberGRID; Networks

This research entails: (1) CyberGRID Net - developing a research data collection and analysis tool integrated into an existing global virtual engineering team working environment, and (2) CyberGRID Networks - utilizing that tool to develop fundamental insights into how globally distributed engineering teams enact complex design work together and with affordances in the virtual environment. The CyberGRID Net will be a research tool that augments an existing virtual environment developed by the investigators for global design work. It will extend current pedagogical tool functionality with the following research-oriented features: (1) the existing TeamWall model-sharing display will detect and track locations of object referencing actions (e.g., pointing to a feature in a design) and functionality will be added for participants to self-indicate when phenomena of research interest occur, (2) virtual environment recordings will be time-stamped when researcher-specified interactions take place, (3) avatar-avatar and avatar-object interactions will be detected along with metadata about the interaction, and (4) functionality will be added for collaborative discussion, data analysis and annotation across a global virtual research team.In a series of experiments, the CyberGRID Net research infrastructure will be used to engage critical organizational research questions: How are Building Information Models (BIM) in the virtual environment used as a boundary objects to resolve conflicts in the knowledge system of global virtual engineering teams? How do conflicts emerge in avatar-avatar interactions? How are conflicting obligations resolved in virtual teams by emergent virtual team leaders? How are boundary objects used in a cross-cultural context? How do leadership styles and community of practice formation vary when team members come from different countries representing different cultures and standards of practice? These questions will be explored in three separate experiments employing a multi-method approach which includes ethnographic observation, social and interaction network analyses, and user reflection. They will involve international activities and will include graduate engineering students in the U.S., India and Finland, as well as industrial participants utilizing the CyberGRID in an industrial test case.This research will utilize computational thinking to develop a new research tool to transform the way global virtual teams are researched, and to link avatar-object interactions into network analyses to transform approaches to modeling knowledge systems in global virtual teams. The CyberGRID Net tool will be used in experiments to expand knowledge system dynamics theory as well as theories of virtual team network formation and leadership. This research may lead to fundamental transformations in design pedagogy which, in turn, can provide new exciting engineering career paths. The research may also improve strategies of engineering firms and policymakers concerned about the leadership role of U.S. engineers in the global workforce.

这项研究需要：（1）网络网络 - 开发集成到现有的全球虚拟工程团队工作环境中的研究数据收集和分析工具，以及（2）网络网络 - 利用该工具来开发对全球分布式工程团队如何在虚拟环境中共同工作并提供的基本见解。 网络网络将是一种研究工具，可扩大研究人员为全球设计工作开发的现有虚拟环境。 It will extend current pedagogical tool functionality with the following research-oriented features: (1) the existing TeamWall model-sharing display will detect and track locations of object referencing actions (e.g., pointing to a feature in a design) and functionality will be added for participants to self-indicate when phenomena of research interest occur, (2) virtual environment recordings will be time-stamped when researcher-specified interactions take place, (3) avatar-avatar将检测到与有关互动的元数据一起检测到的头像 - 对象相互作用，（4）将在全球虚拟研究团队中添加功能，以进行协作讨论，数据分析和注释。在一系列实验中，Cybroid Net Net Research Intrabstructure将使用用于构建信息模型（BIM）的范围对象（bim）的范围内使用的cybergrid net研究基础架构，以构建信息（BIM），以构建信息（bim），以构建范围（bim），以对象（bim）的范围（bim）范围内的环境（bim），以对象（bim）的范围（bim）的范围（bim）。工程团队？阿凡达 - 阿瓦塔尔互动中如何出现冲突？紧急虚拟团队领导者在虚拟团队中如何解决冲突的义务？如何在跨文化环境中使用边界对象？当团队成员来自代表不同文化和实践标准的不同国家时，领导风格和实践社区的形态如何有所不同？ 这些问题将在三个单独的实验中探讨，采用多方法方法，其中包括人种学观察，社交和互动网络分析以及用户反思。 They will involve international activities and will include graduate engineering students in the U.S., India and Finland, as well as industrial participants utilizing the Cyber​​GRID in an industrial test case.This research will utilize computational thinking to develop a new research tool to transform the way global virtual teams are researched, and to link avatar-object interactions into network analyses to transform approaches to modeling knowledge systems in global virtual teams.网络网络工具将用于实验，以扩展知识系统动力学理论以及虚拟团队网络形成和领导的理论。这项研究可能导致设计教学法的基本转变，反过来又可以提供新的激动人心的工程职业道路。这项研究还可以改善关注美国工程师在全球劳动力中的领导作用的工程公司和政策制定者的战略。